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Drugs: Rehabilitation

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals claiming (a) employment support allowance and (b) jobseeker’s allowance who voluntarily disclosed the use of crack cocaine or heroin were referred to a drug treatment provider in each of the last two months for which figures are available. (284994)

The information is not currently available broken down into benefit types. The available information is in the following table.

Total number of individuals who voluntarily disclosed the use of crack cocaine or heroin and who were referred to a drug treatment provider since 27 April 2009

Month

Number of referrals made nationally

April 2009

14

May 2009

55

June 2009

85